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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

Archive for July 2008

July 23rd, 2008

Writers - Want To Earn More Money?

Want to earn more money for your freelance writing? Of course you do.
Peter Bowerman who, among other things, writes The Well-Fed Writer Blog has a great post with some very simple and easy to implement suggestions in a post called: Repeat After Me: “I Will Ask for More Money Next Time…”
And he’s absolutely right. [...]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

July 23rd, 2008

Freelance Writing Jobs - 75 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs

Well! This morning we have 75 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs.
That’s more than double the number we had Monday. It will be interesting to see what Friday and next week bring.
Write well and often,

Two newsletters:
Abundant Freelance Writing - a resource for freelance writers including 3x a week job postings.
Writing With Vision - for those [...]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

July 22nd, 2008

Ask Anne: How Do You Switch Between Projects?

Dear Anne,
I have two major writing projects going at the same time. The deadlines are different - on the first I have a weekly meeting with the client to go over what I’ve written and the other is much more casual, but I do want to get it done.
I’m having trouble keeping track of [...]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

July 22nd, 2008

Do You Approve of Ghostwriters?

I seem to be referring to Joe Wikert’s blog a lot - but he keeps pointing to things I wouldn’t find on my own, like: The Life of a Ghostwriter. That post in turn points to an article in the New York Times by fellow ghostwriter Christine Larson called: Expressing Passions (Just Not Your Own)
The [...]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments

July 21st, 2008

Traditonal Publishing v. Self-Publishing

Writer Mark Hurst, author of Bit Literacy which as he puts it, he ended up self-publishing, has a post over at Good Experience called Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known.
I found the post through Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 blog in an article called: An Author Shares His Secrets. It’s worth reading both. [...]

By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

July 21st, 2008

Freelance Writing Jobs - 36 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs

Hmmm. Only 36 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs today.
That’s the lowest number of freelance writing, blogging, etc. jobs we’ve had in a long time. It will be interesting to see what the rest of the week brings.
Write well and often,

Two newsletters:
Abundant Freelance Writing - a resource for freelance writers including 3x a week job [...]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

July 20th, 2008

Ray Bradbury On Writing Videos About Writing

Who can resist Ray Bradbury on writing… I certainly can’t. This video is short, and gets chopped off at the end. But, imo, it’s more than worth it. There are more Bradbury videos there to chase if you like.

Write well and often, and enjoy the heck out of it - I do.

Two newsletters:
Abundant Freelance Writing [...]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

July 20th, 2008

Links To 5 Blogs By And About Literary Agents

Blogs by writers and by literary agents gives us some almost insider information that wasn’t available before blogging. If you’re looking for an agent you could do worse than search out their blogs. Here are a few agents and a couple of authors sharing their experiences with agency.
THE NEW LITERARY AGENTS - chatty blog from [...]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

July 19th, 2008

Writing and Fitness

Contract Worker has a post called 6 Weeks to a Better, Stronger, More Energetic You. Rico is going back to doing push ups - a particular form of exercise I really have no interest in at all, but it did get me thinking about physical fitness.
First, I applaud Rico and anyone who is doing anything [...]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

July 18th, 2008

Writers - Be SURE You Understand The Contracts You Sign

Publishers Weekly today announced that the Author’s Guild is warning Simon and Schuster authors to be extra careful when signing an addendum to their book contract that alters their ebook royalties.
According to the article, the addendum may actually change author’s rights in favor of the publisher.
I don’t have a contract with Simon and Schuster [...]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments